Finishers: Kombat 7 Preview
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Finishers: Kombat 7 Preview
Saturday, April 26, 2026 Card Begins at 11 AM Finishers HQ 3713 Linden St, Suite 1, Bethlehem, PA 18020 Streaming Live on FloGrappling.
All matches under the CJI ruleset.
Finishers is back with Kombat 7, and the card is exactly what you'd expect from a promotion that keeps raising the bar. Fifteen matches, two vacant title fights, and a roster stacked with names that Finishers regulars are going to recognize. This isn't a card building toward something. This is the something.
The Ruleset
Finishers runs the CJI ruleset. Three five-minute rounds, scored on a 10-point must system by three judges. Initiating action is what the judges want to see. Takedowns, guard passes, sweeps, submission attempts.
On the table: flying armbars, triangles, twisters, wristlocks. Not on the table: slams, scissor leg takedowns, jumping guard. Out of bounds means a standing restart. And if you get caught in a submission, the round keeps going until you get out.
The Card (Match Order May Vary)
190lbs — Nevin Langan (Pridelands MMA) vs Ahmed Gebril (Connecticut Submission Grappling)
125lbs — Yasin Carter (Webb BJJ) vs Adam Krinic (Stafford MMA)
155lbs — AJ Rivera (One Way Martial Arts/10P Btown) vs Jawuan Coleman (House of Salt)
160lbs — Forrest Ramage (Tackle Jiu Jitsu) vs Stephen Eisner (Titan Jiu Jitsu) (Teen Match)
130lbs — Makenna Ratchford (Pridelands MMA) vs Zania Walker (Riverfront BJJ)
155lbs — Ben Snow (10P Fredericksburg) vs Ramy Alhamrawy (B-Team NJ)
205lbs — Jon Beck (Stafford MMA) vs Ethan Warner (Tried and True Jiu Jitsu)
135lbs — Dallas Henderson (Prodigy BJJ) vs Sameet Rizwan (Revel Jiu Jitsu)
175lbs — Jake Griffin (Pridelands MMA) vs Andrew Brown (10P Bethlehem)
175lbs — Mike Reina (Precision Boxing and MMA) vs Jeremy Dekenipp (True Believer Jiu Jitsu)
155lbs — James Clark (10P Rochester) vs TJ Salas (TJ BJJ)
155lbs — Jack Sudduth (Calvert MMA) vs Daniel Cohen (True Believer Jiu Jitsu)
175lbs — Nick Mancini (Tradewinds Network) vs Eli Flores (10P Reading)
This card is loaded with competitors who have been on Finishers cards before and know exactly what they signed up for. The whole thing has a familiar feel in the best possible way. One matchup worth putting a circle around: Sudduth vs Cohen at 155 has match of the night potential and feels like it's flying a little under the radar right now.
Vacant 125lbs Women's Title — Lauren Sears (10P ATX) vs Tali Isaacs (Spear Jiu Jitsu)
Both titles on this card are vacant, which makes Kombat 7 genuinely unusual. A double vacant title card just doesn't happen. Whoever wins here doesn't take the belt from anyone and starts their reign.
Sears made the trip from Austin to Bethlehem, which tells you everything about how seriously she's taking this. She's been on Finishers cards before and has the experience to back up the cross-country travel.
Isaacs has been putting in serious time training with Nick Salles and Danny Maira at Movement Art, and anyone familiar with that gym knows what to expect stylistically. Creativity, pressure, and the kind of grappling that makes you rewind the stream. This title match gets made right.
Vacant Heavyweight Title — Connor Dixon (The Cave) vs Cody Gamble (Mat Factory)
The second vacant title of the day, and this one's for the heavyweight strap. The Finishers' heavyweight belt was most recently held by Pat Shahgholi but was unexpectedly vacated after Pat won his last Lightheavyweight title match.
Connor Dixon trains out of The Cave, his own gym, which has a certain confidence to it. Adding to that is no shortage of wins on the Finishers mats. Connor comes into this match with a chance to bring the title back to his own gym.
Gamble comes out of Mat Factory, a gym known for wrestling accumin and breakout competitors on the east coast scene.
Big guys, big stakes, and a fresh lineage.
Final Thoughts
Two title fights. A potential match of the night in a 155lb matchup that not enough people are talking about. A full card of competitors who know this room and know this format. Kombat 7 has everything.
Doors open at 11. Get there. Or catch it live on FloGrappling.
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